American Literature: Essays and Opinions

ISBN-13: 9781138518773 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 244 str.

Cesare Pavese

Opis

Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) was the leading Italian scholar of American literature of the generation that came to maturity under Mussolini

Spis treści

PART ONE: 1930-1934
An American Novelist, Sinclair Lewis
Sherwood Anderson
The Spoon River Anthology
Herman Melville
Preface to Moby-Dick
Preface to Dark Laughter
O. Henry; or, The Literary Trick
John Dos Passos and the American Novel
Dreiser and His Social Battle
Interpretation of Walt Whitman, Poet
Faulkner, a Bad Pupil of Anderson
The Fictionalized Biographies of Sinclair Lewis
PART TWO: 1938-195O
Preface to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Preface to "Benito Cereno,"
Preface to Three Lives
Additions to the Second Preface to Moby-Dick
The Dead at Spoon River
American Ripeness
A Useful Book
A Negro Speaks to Us
Yesterday and Today
The Great American Anguish
APPENDIX: ENGLISH WRITERS
Preface to Defoe, Moll Flanders
Preface to Dickens, David Copperfield
Preface to Conrad, 'Twixt Land and Sea
Robert Louis Stevenson
INDEX OF NAMES

O autorze

Cesare Pavese